However, sources close to the company say Dropbox hasn’t decided exactly what part or parts of the team will be booted from the headquarters into its nearby annex.ĭropbox will control all 187,000 square feet of the William McDonough-designed office still under construction at 333 Brannan. Sales could be one department housed in the new 333 Brannan location. Selling to Fortune 500 companies requires a big sales force that likely wouldn’t fit in its current digs. Then last month, Dropbox raised $250 million (with another $150 million possibly in the works), giving it a total of $500 million with which to fuel expansion into the enterprise. Dropbox said it added over 300 employees to the company in 2013, and it showed. Every area was crammed full of desks as well as LED art, a jam room for musical instruments, and sculptures of its AK-47-toting velociraptor mascot (that I just had to take a selfie with). With so many people walking around, wheeled-locomotion had become too dangerous to attempt. There were lines of unfurnished meeting rooms, and a whole wing of the office was completely uninhabited.īut when I went by for its latest enterprise press event in December, it was already starting to feel claustrophobic. With so much ground to cover, employees would often ride scooters and skateboard-like Ripsticks over its polished cement floors. Dropbox had less than half the number of employees needed to fill it. When I visited the single-floor 185 Berry location a few years ago, it was practically empty. Originally that office was 87,000 square feet, but then Dropbox expanded to more of the building to occupy a total of 200,000 square feet. Kilroy Realty put out a press release bragging about leasing the space to Dropbox earlier today.īack in 2012, Dropbox moved from an 11,000 square foot Mid-Market office into its current spot at 185 Berry St in the China Basin area of San Francisco’s South Park district. That’s why it’s just signed a 12-year lease on a second office a 10-minute walk away at 333 Brannan to house spillover of its 500 employees, sources close to the company tell me. Dropbox is growing so fast it will soon run out of room at its San Francisco headquarters.
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